The Arctic has been warmer in the last five years than at any time since records began in 1900, a report from a United States scientific agency found.
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December 12, 2018December 13, 2018Science
Prehistoric Viruses and the Function of the Brain
The exceedingly strange story of learning, memory and the “Arc” gene
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December 11, 2018December 13, 2018Science
Nasa’s Voyager 2 probe ‘leaves the Solar System’
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December 10, 2018December 13, 2018Science
The record for high-temperature superconductivity has been smashed again
Chemists found a material that can display superconducting behavior at a temperature warmer than it currently is at the North Pole. The work brings room-temperature superconductivity tantalizingly close.
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December 9, 2018December 13, 2018Science
Scientists Reprogrammed Human Skin Cells Into Immune Cells To Fight Cancer
Cellular Therapy Without T-cells, the cells responsible for fighting off foreign cells, we humans are pretty vulnerable to disease. The T-cells themselves however rely on immune system sentinels, dendritic cells, to seek our and flag anything suspicious. In cancer treatments like immunotherapy, this process is manipulated...
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December 8, 2018December 13, 2018Science
China launches lander aimed for dark side of the moon
A rocket carrying the Chang’e-4 lunar lander blasted off at about 2.23 am local time on Saturday from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southern China.
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December 8, 2018December 13, 2018Science
A World First: Listen to the Sounds of Mars
The Martian Wind Blows It’s been less than a day since we got our last update from NASA’s Insight lander and it’s sent a revelatory new message home: the sounds of Mars. InSight successfully landed on the Martian surface on November 26, and has blessed us with several high-resolution views of its desolate...
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December 6, 2018December 13, 2018Science
From a Deceased Woman’s Transplanted Uterus, a Live Birth
A novel transplantation procedure may help more infertile women become pregnant.
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December 6, 2018December 13, 2018Science
An Oxford Scientist May Have Solved the Mystery of Dark Matter
Dark Matter One of the most galling mysteries in physics is that of dark matter and dark energy, the names given to the unknown material and energy that observations suggest permeate the universe, but that we can’t see. Scientists believe that together, these dark materials could account for up to 95 percent of the...
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December 5, 2018December 13, 2018Science
Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new...